Once you are dark adapted, there is another little trick that can help you pick up even fainter objects and it relies on the structure of the retina.

如果适应了黑暗，这里还有一个小窍门让你看到更加微小的事物。这就要倚靠视网膜组织了。

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This is called "dark adaptation" and it takes your eye up to an hour to become fully adapted to seeing in low light conditions.

这就叫做“暗光适应”。你的眼睛花上一个钟头就可以完全适应光线暗淡的环境。

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That day, halo dark room, the smell of damp so I adapted a bit, watching the emaciated old man, tortured by pain dark shed tears, shook hands ticking phase coated with a fleeting tears.

那日，晕暗的房间，潮湿的气味让我有点不那么适应，看着眼前消瘦的老人，被病痛折磨的黯淡流下了泪光，相握的双手滴滴答答沾上了流年的泪光。

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The screenwriter, Michael Tolkin, who adapted his own dark 1988 novel, puts a morally tainted and psychologically vulnerable antihero in the middle of Hollywood, and it works.

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